Biostatistics for Public Health

Catalog description

An overview of scientific methods, research designs, sampling, and survey techniques pertinent to the study of health issues will be presented. Choice and use of statistical software to analyze health data sets will be emphasized. Specifically, this course focuses on the application of statistical methods to different public-health research designs, and data with different scales of measurement. Students will display and summarize public health-related data, and also apply and interpret different statistical tests. Students will be able to complete all tasks using SPSS. Data interpretation and professional write-up is emphasized.